I just joined the syndic8 community yesterday, like the format of the site,
and very much like the fact that all of the feeds are reviewed and approved
by users before addition to the database. I have a few questions about
approving feeds, and their validity.
1. Most of the feeds that presented to me for approval were from 2004 -
2006, but I did get one feed submitted in 2007. Many of these older feeds
had only been updated once or twice since their submission, and most had not
been updated for several years. If an old feed still exists, and if proves
to be valid RSS, should it be added?
2. Secondly, what is the threshold for a feed to fail the validation
standards for syndic8? For example, if the validation results in a warning
that states that "This feed is valid, but may cause a problem for some
usersÂ…", but doesn't indicate that "This feed does not validate." If the
feed does not validate, it does not make it in, but what happens to a feed
that validates, but has warnings?
2a. A longer, more editorial question: It seems that most of the feeds
I have reviewed at syndic8 are either not valid or use an obsolete
namespace. This may be in part due to the average age of the feeds, and the
availability of validation tools at the time, however several of the these
feeds with issues were live feeds, containing recent content, and submitted
to syndic8 in the past 6 months.
I am very new to the world of syndicated feeds. One week ago I decided
to syndicate the content on my website. After learning what I could about
XML and RSS, I found a snippet of PHP code, and took it from there. As I
was writing the programming to create my feed, I continually checked the
output with the Feed Validator to verify that what I was doing was right. I'm
not saying I'm perfect, but I'm curious as to why there are there so many
feeds that do not pass validation. My estimation is that this is akin to
the validation of HTML. Most people who use a WYSIWYG editor to create
their website don't know anything about validation, or even for that matter,
the code that's created beyond maybe "<html>" tag.
i. What is the ratio of people who submit feeds for
syndication that:
a. Write the code to generate their own feed.
b. Use some sort of a blog site or other CMS to generate their feed.
If my hypothesis is correct, the number of people creating their own
feeds will be small in comparison to the number of people using other means.
This brings me back to the question as to why the feeds do not
validate. Assuming
that most of these invalid feeds come from people using a site or CMS, are
they using old software that needs updated, or is there a common site or
site software that has bugs?
Thanks.
Matt
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